Great! Love the last one, looks like he's the king of the pond.

Thanks for your answers! I am so sorry that I have to tell you the ugly truth... There's no way I can make a stereo of this image, as way too much preparation went into this image. It's a 200 image stack that was processed in 22 substacks and then HEAVILY retouched inside Zerene to get rid of all th...

Oly UPlanApo 20x, cross polarized darkfield.



100x detail


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Michael

Thank you, Kurt & Jacek!

Someone at the office forgot about his tomato sauce in the fridge.

LMPlanFL 50x, 2x Jansjö + diffusor, ~150 images stack.


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Michael

Georgeous pictures!
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Michael

Thanks for your answers!

Ain't it crazy? Looks like new but is approximately 32 million years old .
Here's another "oldie":

Thanks for your answers! Wow!, excellent pictures. is it a single valve with two fine texture-less borders? I'd say so, yes. Here's a link to a SEM picture: http://www.microscopyview.com/MENU/400-DIATOM/406-MID/H406-7700.html And here's another link to a French forum, if you scroll down you'll see a...

Great images!
Especially Micrasterias is beautiful.
BR Michael

Thanks for the replies! So what's better than a stereo? Two stereos :). http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/5697_PMax_UDR_skip1_0023_stereo_1024px_1.jpg Bad quality, but nice stereo: http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/5697_PMax_UDR_skip1_000_stereo_1024px_1.jpg Best regards, Mic...

Ingredients: Two Jansjös, a diffusor, LMPlanFL 100x and a "healthy" Kittonia elaborata.
~250 images stacked.



Sorry for not contributing much recently, crazy times here at the office.

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Michael

Thanks a lot for your comments! Here are some more, rather different. This time, dipping a Oly LUMPLFL 10x into a petri dish. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/5697_DSC_7661_1024px_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/5697_DSC_7794_1024px_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography....

Beautiful pictures. I love the grading and colorschemes.

Second one is awesome! Well, the others, too, but the second one - wow!

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Michael

I didn't recognize that there were quite a bunch of additional answers to this thread - so thanks a lot! The "ball head specimen stage" is just two black anodized aluminium plates, that are held together by a magnet around a gear ball, so you can rotate it freely with a bit of friction. It was a min...